It’s 80 degrees today in New York City, but winter is supposedly coming at some point, and I don’t have a winter coat. What will happen if I do not find one in time? Will I lose a finger? Will I become one of those people who stubbornly layers five sweaters underneath a jean jacket, like this guy I briefly dated who…

In a kicky little display of authoritarian bravura, Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke contended that one third of his department’s workforce, which would amount to around 20,000 federal employees, are “not loyal to the flag.” This was during a speech he gave to the National Petroleum Council, a longstanding federal…

The entire island of Puerto Rico, home to 3.4 million Americans, is still without power after a direct hit from Hurricane Maria, the fifth-strongest storm to ever hit the United States. Cell phone and internet service has also largely been lost and it could take six months for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority,…

On Tuesday, Vox’s Jeff Stein interviewed nine Republican senators to try to get them to explain how the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal/replace bill will help Americans. To be fair, this is a tough question, because the bill almost certainly will not help anyone—it will actually probably hurt people. It hasn’t been…

Trump’s presidential memorandum in March implementing his travel ban also solicited a study on refugees from the Department of Health and Human Services—in retrospect, a bad idea for his purposes, as research tends to support the notion that admitting refugees is a good thing to do.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, a villainous Wall Street muppet from a 1980s Jim Henson film, continues to draw criticism for his use of a government plane to fly to Fort Knox, Kentucky on a trip that included a viewing of the solar eclipse.

On a nearly moonless night in late May, as I stumbled down a wide, smooth path near a large campground in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, it suddenly occurred to me that I can’t see in the dark anymore. I’m not sure when I lost this ability, since I hardly ever get to test it these days; most of my life has…

Employees at the two Motel 6 locations in Phoenix told the Phoenix New Times that it was common practice at the chain to share guest information with ICE. If true, this would mean that an American motel company is willingly referring paying customers to a ruthlessly overzealous deportation force that was recently…

Politico reports that Senator Patty Murray (D-Washington) is preparing to introduce the “Child Care for Working Families Act” on Thursday, a piece of legislation that, according to Politico, will focus on keeping down childcare costs and invest in early learning and the childcare workforce. This is meant as something…

It’s been a minute since Ted Cruz has humiliated himself in a disgusting way (see: white thing on mouth), but my god, was this one ever worth the wait. Around the witching hour of Tuesday morning, when all but a few stalwart tweeters were sound asleep, @tedcruz was discovered to have liked a porn tweet.

Following a searing Mother Jones report on allegations of misconduct in the University of Rochester’s cognitive and brain sciences department, the University has responded with a forceful statement and a subsequent email touting “two comprehensive and careful investigations” that did not substantiate those allegations.

Luann de Lesseps recently parted ways with her shiny bald husband of seven months, Tom D’Agostino, after persistent cheating rumors and a public row that ended in either a “slap” or a “face hold,” depending on who you ask.